Better Understand 6 GHz Use Before Allowing Sharing, NSMA Asks FCC
Get more information on critical 6 GHz transmissions before approving sharing with Wi-Fi and other unlicensed users, the National Spectrum Management Association filed, posted Thursday in docket 18-295. “It is critical for the FCC to assess the extent to which…
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current operations in the 6 GHz band support mission-critical services, and the operational and network growth criteria for those services, as a fundamental starting point for assessing the feasibility of introducing additional services into the band,” NSMA said: That "should take the form of either an FCC Fixed Service Database enhancement, or an audit or a functionally equivalent official study finding.” Require use of a testbed to study sharing “under realistic conditions,” the group said. The agency is studying how the band can be shared with Wi-Fi (see 1909090057).